PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
"Good thing JFK taped what happened during the crisis. You look like a fool claiming different from the audio recordings of what was said and done."
Make you point clearly, so I can rip you a new one:
Are you denying that JFK's ineptitude caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Let's cut to the chase:
1. John Kennedy was as much the cause of the crisis as the hero.
"....when Elder cites historians critical of Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Matthews says: “What is the purpose of this conversation?”
“The purpose right now is to show that you are glossing over Kennedy. You are airbrushing the bad things,” Elder answers." Larry Elder Hammers Chris Matthews in Agonizing Interview: ‘I’m Sorry For Cutting You Off the Way You Cut Your Guests Off’
Let's fill in the voids.
2. Time-line
a. The Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, between President John F. Kennedy of the United States and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. Vienna summit - Wikipedia
b." In May 1962, Khrushchev announced to the Politburo his secret plan to put Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba." Cuban Missile Crisis: Kennedy's Mistakes
c. October, 1962....Cuban Missile Crisis
3. Here is the key question that the Democrat stenographers never pose, much less answer:
What made Khrushchev decide to take a chance on putting missiles in Cuba?
Before Kennedy agreed to meet with Khrushchev, at the Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961, his own advisers had warned him not to do so.....they recognized him as a 'lightweight' as far as foreign policy experience.
"Senior American statesmen like George Kennan advised Kennedy not to rush into a high-level meeting, arguing that Khrushchev had engaged in anti-American propaganda and that the issues at hand could as well be addressed by lower-level diplomats. Kennedy’s own secretary of state, Dean Rusk, had argued much the same in a Foreign Affairs article the previous year..
....Kennedy went ahead, and for two days he was pummeled by the Soviet leader. Despite his eloquence, Kennedy was no match as a sparring partner, and offered only token resistance as Khrushchev lectured him ...
Kennedy’s aides convinced the press at the time that behind closed doors the president was performing well, but American diplomats in attendance, including the ambassador to the Soviet Union, later said they were shocked that Kennedy had taken so much abuse. ... the meeting was “just a disaster.”
4. Khrushchev’s aide, after the first day, said the American president seemed “very inexperienced, even immature.” Khrushchev agreed, noting that the youthful Kennedy was “too intelligent and too weak.” [Can you say 'Obama'?]
Kennedy’s assessment of his own performance was no less severe. Only a few minutes after parting with Khrushchev, Kennedy, a World War II veteran, told James Reston of The New York Times that the summit meeting had been the “roughest thing in my life.” Kennedy went on:
“He just beat the hell out of me. I’ve got a terrible problem if he thinks I’m inexperienced and have no guts. "
Opinion | Kennedy Talked, Khrushchev Triumphed
That's why Khrushchev decided to put missiles in Cuba.
Kennedy himself was the cause of the Soviet move that almost started WWIII.
Never doubt me.
I know far more than you ever will.
